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G. S. BRADLEY 83 J. J. WOOD.

ELECTRIC MOTOR AND GENERATOR.

No. 481,220. Patented Aug. 28, 1892.

UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE CHARLES s. BRADLEY,

ELECTRIC MOTOR AND GENERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,220, dated August 23, 1892.

- Appllcation filed August 22,1891. serial No. 403,413. (No Model.)

To, all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that we, CHARLES S. BRADLEY,

' residing at Avon,in the county of Livingston and State of New York, and-JAMES J; WOOD,

residing at Fort W'ayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana,citizcns of the United States, have invented certain new and useful" Improveinents'in Electric Motors and Genera ators; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled .in the art to which it appertains to 'make and use the same.

This invention relates to electric motors or generators, and more particularly to means for maintaining in position the coils on the pole pieees of a multipolarmagnet. In mul tipolarstructures the pole-pieces radiate from ortoward the center'andmhe magnetizing-- I coil to lock it firmly in place.-

I those atthe sides of the core-are bent latera shows a second form of docking-tongue.

- As shown, 1 represen s the ring-core with radial pole-pieces '2 2 to support the coils 3 3.

- In alternating-current motors these cores are formed of a'series of. superposed laminated plates in a manner well understood by electricians. Two of these plates-namely,

ally over they edges of the coil. In order to facilitate bending in the pole-pieces of the outer plates a notch is made, as indicated at 4, sogthat the-ends may be readily bent, or t maybecut away at. the edges, as shown 1n The may be readily bcnt- It will thus be seen that when the coils are placed in position and the ends of the polar projections of the outer rings are bent outwardly the coils will. be firmly anchored.

\Ve desire to have it understood that the invention is'not restricted to the specific organizations described, asthe same end might be accomplished by providing-each pole with an independent locking device secured to it in a suitable manner, the only essential fea-- ture being that such locking device shall be secured to the body of the core and shall be capable of being bent around thecoil and. fastened so as to firmly anchor it. Itis also evident that the same device might be used for outwardly-projecting pole-pieces to pre-' 'ventdislodgmcnt by centrifugal action.

Having thus described our invention,'what we claim as new, and desire 'to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A magnet for adyna'mo-electric machine or motor comprising a laminated core, the side plates of the core having their polar projections bent over the end of the magnetizing-coils to retain them in position.

2. A. multipolar magnet for a dynamo-electric machine or motor, comprising a series of laminated rings having projecting polepieces, the outer layers of the ring having their polar'projections bent outwardly, so as to retain the magnetizing-coils in position.

3. A magnet for a multipolar machine comprising a series of laminated iron plates havin projecting pole-pieces, auxiliary-plates wi h similarly-located projections superposed upon the iron plates, each projection being provided with a recess, so as to form two tongues" to each set of coils, and polarizingcoils anchored by the said tongueswhen bent.

In testimony whereof we affix our-signatures in presence of two witnesses. CHARLES S. BRADLEY.

JAMES J. \VOOD.

Witnesses as to Bradley:

' CHAS. O. MILLER, THos. H. DACCOMB. Witnesses as to "Wood: A. F. CHAPIN, H. W. WELLMAN. 

